While the Midwest isn't typically impacted as hard by H-1B activity. I'd certainly like to see the President overhaul the whole program and tighten it way down. I don't need it to go away, what I would like to see is for H-1B to be MORE EXPENSIVE than training someone locally. It should be an expensive option that you use when you don't have time to build the skill set locally.

However, I am from Missouri. You really have to Show Me, for me to believe.

I think the trouble with Geoblocking drones (and I'm not saying that it shouldn't be done, but pointing this out), is that if we Geoblock for prisons for reasons of security, then we do the same for government buildings, military bases; again, all for likely good security reasons. Then we add banks or other money storage facilities and clearing houses or places likely the target of prying eyes. Then we add primary schools, for the safety of the children. Then how about the universities, because they do sensitive research for the military..and so on and so forth. The question about Geoblocking is: Where do we draw the line?

Can I Geoblock my business or property because I do business with the government?

How far beyond my property line can I Geoblock? Just because you can't fly the drone directly over a prison, doesn't mean I can't fly high enough to get a good look into it.

So, to put this in perspective, let's think about the cost to hire a TSA worker to replace one you fire, vs. the cost to keep a bad one and "counsel" them, and print letters to send/give them to help them straighten up their act and flight right...so to speak.

I'm guessing it's "easier" to just "counsel" the employee, opposed to firing them and going about hiring someone else.

Any HR folks who can check my fuzzy math on this?

Bottom Line: The TSA may have a "values" issue, because in a "normal" security job, misconduct would likely get you fired on the first offense.

One of my small clients was able to get Small Business Google Fiber installed this last year. After the struggles of getting the physical installation going, things have been very nice. They like it very much, the way they expected it. However...

Recently Google has contacted us to say our "introductory rates" will be ending the middle of 2017. They're moving to a 3-tier model for their fiber speeds. For $250 you can keep your 1 gigabit speed, for $150 (I think), you an go down to 250 megabits, and for $75 (or $100 maybe), you can go down to 100 megabits. If we don't update our choice by the end of July, 2017, they'll kick us down to 250 Mbps automatically.

So, with the price change, that means we'll have to pay, basically, double to maintain our 1 Gbps, otherwise we lose 75% of our speed to pay the same price.

Let's not fool ourselves, replacing the minimum wage worker at McDonald's with a robot isn't a new idea. They've been working on that since the early 2000's. The increased minimum wage has been a slight, if not small, acceleration to the plan to do so.

Even when they were paying less than $8/hour, they were thinking they wanted to have a one-time-cost robot to do the work for them.

Adding CS to the US K-12 system sounds all well and good, but I might suggest that they step up their game. The US K-12 system exists because manufacturers needed folks to work in the Industrial Age, manufacturing, who had more wanted people to work for them with more than an 8th Grade education.

Today's Knowledge Age employers need to not merely be asking for CS, they need to be asking for a Pre-K through Bachelors system to get the sort of workers they really want.

Since Lucasfilm/Disney would be better served by not having lawyers running after a good-will event like this, it seems like everyone might be better served if Lucanfilm/Disney would require them to collect a $1 entry fee, all of which is required to go to a charity. Now, no on looks like the bad guy, everyone has fun, and people get some help.

I joke about Liam having a cousin Mail who'll be assembling iPhones in the next building over, but if you can use Liam to dismantle the phones, anywhere in the world, why couldn't you soon use something very similar, to assemble the iPhone/iPad/iPod, anywhere in the world. (And suddenly, Apple was assembling iDevices in the United States.)

Yes, yes...I know, I know. It's far less complicated and easier to disassemble the devices than build them. You're not nearly as worried about damaged parts. However, I'm guessing that Liam isn't a dumb-robot, I suspect there's some programming in there for him to learn how to deal with devices in slightly different ways as it encounters something new.

Not unlimited powers, but powers that are within their domain. For example a judge couldn't order Tim Cook to fire Ives, or require him to move the Apple HQ to Timbuktu. But, the judge can order the company to cooperate with a search warrant, which is within their rights under the All Writs Act, (when broadly read).

Actually, a judge can compel US citizens to do things that are within their purview. This is effectively a search warrant, which puts it in the judges power. However, the law it's based on, the All Writs Act, is what's in contest for Apple. Broadly interpreted, the judge does have the power to compel this assistance, in the same way that a judge can compel someone to give testimony even if they want to plead the 5th, because they are guaranteeing immunity from self-incrimination. Failure to comply, means the judge can hold you on charges of contempt indefinitely.